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	HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS A general construction view, showing the work area through a section of the ship's frame. From a stereoscopic image....
	HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS The Hindenburg tethered to a small indoor mooring mast during herÂ construction. Phot originally stereographic.Â ...
	HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS A general view under the hull, looking aft. Photo originally steroscopic....
	HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS Installing one of the motor gondolas. Photo originally stereoscopic....
	HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS Crew gangway, the same as described in Sky Cruise.Â From a stereoscopic image....
	HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS The installation of the control car. Froma stereoscopic image....
	HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS The control car. Photo originally steroscopic....
	HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS The Hindenburg, like the Graf Zeppelin, was a powerful propaganda tool. Here, the Swastika has been applied to her fins....
	HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS The interior of the Hindenburg's control car, showing her wheel.Â From a stereographic image....
	HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS A view of the Hindenburg as her skin was being installed. From a stereoscopic photo....
	HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS A striking stereoview showing the Hindenburg's framework....
The Oregonian	MYSTERIOUSLY FAST SINKING OF BRITANNIC EXPLORED Why did Britannic plummet 400 feet to the floor of the Aegean Sea despite the many improvements made in her design and construction?...	13th October 2007
	BUILDING THE TITANIC This original picture shows the Titanic under construction in Belfast, certainly in late 1911. Note that three funnels are not yet painted, there is a scaffolding around the fourth funnel....	1911
Building Design	ARCHITECTS SOUGHT FOR TITANIC SHOW Fancy appearing on TV? Channel 4 is looking for architects to form part of an on-camera construction team, as they attempt to recreate the ill-fated Titanic cruise ship....	28th November 2009
	HINDENBURG CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS Under the hull, looking forward towards the motor gondolas. Original photo stereoscopic....
Belfast Telegraph	WEATHER PUTS TITANIC PROJECT ON COURSE FOR 2012 OPENING Construction of the Titanic Signature project is a month ahead of schedule with the landmark building on course to open in the first quarter of 2012....	3rd July 2010
bbc.co.uk	COUNCIL MARKS TITANIC CENTENARY Celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the launch of RMS Titanic will begin on Thursday with the opening of a major photographic exhibition. The 'Titanic 100' exhibition will be held at Belfast City Hall until May. It will focus on the construction ......	31st March 2011
	NORMANDIE FITTING OUT	1933
	NORMANDIE FITTING OUT	1933
	NORMANDIE FITTING OUT	1933
	STATENDAM 1929, CA 1923 BROCHURE COVER. This is the cover for an elaborate brochure issued to promote the commencing of construction on the new Statendam, replacement for the Statendam/Justicia....
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC BUILDING ALREADY A BOON FOR THE ECOMONY Ten of the 11 subcontracts awarded so far for work on the Titanic Signature Building have gone to local firms Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster has announced. The Minister was visiting the site of the £97m project to see how contract Harcourt Construction was progressing with the build. ...	9th July 2010
New York Times	CHARLES G. ROEBLING, BRIDGE BUILDER., DIES Engineer and Philanthropist, Head of John A. Roebling's Sons Co. Expires in Trenton at 69 --- Charles Gustavus Roebling, millionaire philanthropist and engineer, who, with his brother, Washington Augustus Roebling, completed the constru...	6th October 1918
The Times	VISCOUNTY FOR LORD PIRRIE The following honours were conferred by the King on the occasion of the opening of the Northern Parliament:--- VISCOUNTY: UNITED KINGDOM. PIRRIE, THE RIGHT HON. BARON, K.P., LL.D., D.L., Ormiston, Strandtown, Belfast.---Valuable s...	23rd June 1921
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	GRAVESTONE FOR TITANIC FALL BOY - BELFAST TELEGRAPH The forgotten teenager who plunged to his death while building the Titanic is to get a gravestone at last. Samuel Scott, 15, was the first person connected with the tragic vessel to die after he fell on the construction site. His body has lain in an unmarked grave in Belfast City Cemetery but a new headstone will be unveiled on Saturday....	26th July 2011
Yorkshire Post	TITANIC THEORY IS TESTED WITH YORKSHIRE HELP Wrought iron specialist makes duplicates of suspect rivets used in doomed ship's construction for TV programme Chris Benfield FOR nearly 100 years, the blame for the sinking of the Titanic has been split between the iceberg and the man who sailed into it. But tomorrow night, a television documentary made with the help of a Yorkshire blacksmith will argue that faulty workmanship was another factor....	18th September 2006
Weekly Irish Times	A LINER TO ECLIPSE THE OLYMPIC A New Leviathan The new Atlantic liner which Messrs Harland and Wolff Limited are building for the White Star Line will eclipse in size and tonnage the Olympic and the ill-fated Titanic. The new vessel will be called the Britannic in ...	21st September 1912
build.ie	PATTON WIN PRESTIGIOUS NEW TITANIC CONTRACT he contract to fit out a major new exhibition centre dedicated to the story of the Titanic has been secured by the Patton Group's recently established Heritage Division. The Ballymena based company, which has itself established an impressive history ......	6th May 2011
Jamestown Sun	'TITANIC' MUSICAL AT JC Just as the RMS Titanic was the largest and grandest ship in its day, the Jamestown College production of “Titanic” the musical will also be very large. On Tuesday, a little more than a week before the show opens in DeNault Auditorium at the Reiland Fine Arts Center, construction crews were busy creating one of the more comprehensive sets to be used in the JC production. Mike McIntrye, director of the production and theater at JC, said the mammoth stage will have a massive 50-member cast to match...	27th October 2011
Belfast Telegraph	CENTENARY TRIBUTE TO TITANIC BUILDERS The centenary of work beginning on RMS Titanic has been marked by a symbolic keel laying ceremony at Titanic Quarter. John M Andrews, great-nephew of Titanic designer Thomas Andrews and president of Belfast Titanic Society, unveiled a memorial plaque on a replica keel plate which has been erected on the exact spot on the Titanic slipway where construction began in 1909....	1st April 2009
Birmingham Mail	BIRMINGHAM EXHIBITION MARKS REGION'S LINKS WITH TITANIC Links with the legendary liner Titanic are being celebrated with an exhibition outlining the contribution by West Midlands’ craftsmen to the construction of the ill-fated ship. The two-day Bull Ring display, which is open today and tomorrow, showcases the work done in the region to supply parts to Belfast shipbuilder Harland & Wolff. A new visitor attraction is set to open in Northern Ireland next spring to mark the centenary of the ship’s maiden voyage....	30th September 2011
TIME	REVEALING THE TITANIC'S SECRETS In his book, Titanic's Last Secrets, Brad Matsen tells the story of wreck divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler and their search for the truth about the Titanic's sinking in 1912. More than just a tragic iceberg crash, the story the divers uncovered is one of bad management, shoddy construction and an ocean liner that sank so quickly that most passengers didn't know what was happening until it was too late. Chatterton and Kohler talk to TIME about deep sea diving, investigating shipwrecks, and the allure of the Titanic....	6th October 2008
thisishampshire.net	SOUTHAMPTON LOSES OUT TO BELFAST OVER TITANIC CENTENARY Both cities, each with a long maritime history and close connections with the ill-fated liner, are aiming to attract international attention when the 100th anniversary of the ship’s sinking is commemorated in April 2012. Now it seems Belfast has clinched the prized top position with not only the construction of a major £97m visitor attraction dedicated to the White Star ship, but also by the announcement of a unique partnership between the Ulster city and the American deep-sea explorer who found the liner’s wreck in 1985...	2nd November 2011
Titanic Research	WAS THE TITANIC'S RUDDER LARGE ENOUGH? Captain Charles B. Weeks There have been several times when the question has been raised about whether the Titanic’s rudder was large enough. It has been suggested that if the rudder had been larger she would have turned more quickly and t...	29th September 2002
New York Times	BUILDING OF GIANT LINERS Work on the White Star's Olympic and Titanic Proceeds Rapidly The rise and progress of the leviathan liners now building is an absorbing topic of conversation at Belfast, where the rapid advance in their constructio...	10th July 1910
New York Times	BUILDING OF GIANT LINERS BUILDING OF GIANT LINERS --- Work on the White Star's Olympic and Titanic Proceeds Rapidly --- Special Correspondence THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, July 2---The rise and progress of the leviathan liners n...	10th July 1910
Cork Examiner	TITANIC GANTRY DESIGNER DIES Sir William Arrol and two disasters...	8th February 1913
Irish Times	LIKE THE LINER, BAD LUCK DOGS THE TITANIC SIGNATURE PROJECT BELFAST BRIEFING: An ambitious attempt to capitalise on the city's relationship with the Titanic is in deep trouble, writes FRANCESS McDONNELL THERE REMAIN many unanswered questions concerning the fate of one of Belfast's proudest but ultimately most tragic achievements, the RMS Titanic ....	14th July 2009
Newark Evening News	TWO SURVIVORS WERE TO VISIT IN ARLINGTON Among those reported saved from the wreck of the Titanic are Mrs. Bessie Watt and her daughter, Miss Bertha Watt, of London, England, who were expected to visit Arlington as guests of Mrs. Etta Moore, of 58 Pavonia avenue. They left home to join Mrs...	17th April 1912
The Times	THOMAS ISMAY HONORED BY CITY OF BELFAST BELFAST, July 20---Mr. Thomas H. Ismay, chairman of the White Star Line, was to-day presented with the freedom of the city in recognition of his services to Belfast ...	22nd July 1899
Voyage	COLLINGWOOD John P. Eaton (Akties Collingwood) (Zernichow & O. Gotaas) Arrived at Belfast ( Musgrave Channel) 16 October 1908 from Bangkok via the Azores carrying a cargo of teak wood logs which in a finished sta...	28th November 2004
New York Times	BIG SHIPS EASY TO BUILD BIG SHIPS EASY TO BUILD --- Only Limited by Docks and Channel, Says English Yard Manager --- Among the passengers who arrived yesterday on the White Star steamship Celtic was the Right Hon. Alexander M. Carlisle...	11th July 1910
New York Herald	MR. W. ROEBLING, 2D, AMONG PASSENGERS TRENTON, N.J. Monday - Washington Roebling, II a son of Charles G. Roebling, president of the John A. Roebling Sons Company, the Roebling Construction Company and the New Jersey Wire Cloth Company, who was a passenger on board the Titanic, togethe...	17th April 1912
Weekly Irish Times	BELFAST MEMORIAL DECIDED UPON Article...	7th September 1912
	HARLAND AND WOLFF PHOTOGRAPHER CELEBRATED IN NEW TITANIC EXHIBITION Celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the launch of RMS Titanic will begin on Thursday with the opening of a major photographic exhibition....
New York Times	THE TEUTONIC LAUNCHED A WHITE STAR STEAMER THAT IS EXPECTED TO BEAT ALL RECORDS --- BELFAST, Jan. 19---The new White Star steamer Teutonic was launched this morning from the Queens Island yard. The companion ship, Majestic, of ...	20th January 1889
Western People	WHITE STAR LINER TITANIC, 46,326 TONS. THE LARGEST VESSEL IN THE WORLD. The completion of the "Titanic" at Harland and Wolf's great Belfast Ship-building yard marks a further stage in the progress of British shipping and ship building, and in the development of the White Star Line. The construction of two such notable ve...	13th April 1912
The Evening Post	BRITISH INQUIRY INTO TITANIC TRAGEDY BEGINS Based on 26 Questions and Much Like That of Our Senate LONDON, May 2 – Lord Mersey in his capacity as wreck commissioner and five assessors who ...	2nd May 1912
	INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS Norman Harrison (1873-1912) AMIMechE Elected: Associate Member of the Inst...	17th November 1911
New York Times	AN UNPLEASANT INCIDENT AMERICANS OFFENDED BY A SPEECH BY MR. ISMAY ON THE TEUTONIC ---------- The maiden voyage of the splendid steamer, the Teutonic, of the White Star Line, which arrived at this port on Wednesday, seems to...	17th August 1889
Southern Daily Echo	DESIGNERS UNVEILED FOR SOUTHAMPTON'S TITANIC MUSEUM THE team that will design Southampton's £15m Titanic museum has been appointed. In a major step forward for the world-class tourist attraction, Southampton City Council has appointed award-winning architects Wilkinson Eyre....
Sydney Morning Herald	TITANIC BIRTH DRAMA IS PROTRACTED LABOUR Despite some flaws, this serves as a companion piece to James Cameron's 1997 film Titanic, which follows at 8.40pm and dramatises the final hours of the most famous cruise liner in history (excluding, of course, our own beloved Fairstar).Birth of a Legend promises a wealth of archival material, but the problem with documentaries about the Titanic is that no matter how new they look, you get the feeling you've seen it all before (and if you've been near a TV set in the past decade, you probably have). Every new documentary becomes an increasingly anemic duplicate of the one before, like a brass rubbing that has been worn down until there is nothing left....	12th June 2006
Newark Star	MR. STENGEL SENDS WORD HE IS SAFE Nothing Heard of Three Other Essex Men Who Were on Doomed Ship --- Friends and relatives of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Henry Stengel were rejoiced yesterday when a wireless message was received from Mr. Ivan Stengel stating that his father and ...	18th April 1912
Titanic Stories	A LUCKY ESCAPE FROM THE TITANIC - FATHER BROWNE Titanic Stories Hear the story of the man who captured unique photos of Titanic before she sank. He was luckily summoned back to his duties instead of going on the maiden voyage....	12th May 2011
New York Times	WHITE STAR LINE AFTER CONTINENTAL TRAFFIC Service to Channel Ports Also to be Installed by Cunard Line --- WILL RIVAL GERMAN BOATS --- Mails to Two-thirds of England and All Scotland and Ireland Will Be Delayed by This Action --- The announcem...	8th January 1907
The Shipwrecked Mariner Quarterly Maritime Magazine (1882)	SHIPBUILDING IN IRELAND SHIPBUILDING IN IRELAND.-Whatever may be said of other branches of Irish industry, its shipbuilding may, it would appear, compare not unfavourably with that of any other part of the kingdom. The Clyde claims pre-eminence, but Mes...
Titanic Stories	TOP 10 TITANIC LEGENDS Speculation, exaggeration, propaganda and lies! Titanic has inspired many tall tales – but what is really true and what’s not?...	8th July 2011
	RMS TITANIC MISCELLANY IRISH ACADEMIC PRESS : The RMS Titanic Miscellany John D.T. White Foreword by Eamonn Holmes ...	23rd March 2011
New York Times Book Review	THE LEGENDS STAY AFLOAT DOWN TO ETERNITY. By Richard O'Connor. 191 pp. New York:Gold Medal Books. 35 cents. --- By BURKE WILKINSON --- Anyone interested in the Titanic disaster will want to read this book, if only to com...	19th February 1956
Voyage	LORD CROMER John P. Eaton Departed Stockton-on Tees, England 14 March, 1912 on her maiden voyage bound for Louisburg, Nova Scotia, in ballast. During her crossing she was badly damaged by ice and after 19 days of a voyage which should have taken no mor...	9th January 2005
	TITANIC : HISTORY ON A PLATE To be opened by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall on 18th February 2011 ...
New York Times	NO WIRELESS ORDER TO HOLD BACK NEWS Sea Gate Operator Explains the Messages to Bride and Cottam on the Carpathia --- SHIP THEN IN THE HARBOR --- "Keep Your Mouth Shut" Not Official, but Friendly Words of One Operator to Another ---...	27th April 1912
Gare Maritime	MAURETANIA HISTORY COMES ALIVE IN BRISTOL Gavin Murphy Relics of the Cunard four-stacker now grace a Bristol bar...	8th November 2001